I never check T:UK before I set off to a trig because I love the surprise. So, surprised to find this one in someone's very well looked after back garden. No one home but I don't think I would have the heart to knock on a Sunday afternoon anyway. Cheeky picture through the gate and a 'its not fair' attitude I want a trig in my back garden! LOL.

Take care on the address - you need Cotleigh Gardens, but there are Cotleigh Road and Cotleigh Crescent! No reply on knocking, so had to be satisfied viewing through padlocked side gate. My 200th pillar for 2012. A very pleasant sunny ride Northward.

The same householder lives here and was in when we called. Still very friendly. He unlocked the garden gate for us to enable access to the trig.
Thanks to Andy for setting up what proved to be an unexpectedly successful trigging expedition.

no reply today but did get a quick look and photo over the back gate,not even a pasing wilderbeast today though to be honest I have always thought that if you have seen 1 wilderbeast you have seen then all.Revisit and entry to garden 20/11/2010.

As some what of an experienced trig Connoisseur, I found this trig to be of real excitement. I thought as it is located in someone's back garden it would be dull and boring, however it was as fun as seeing heards of roaming wilderbeast, or even the hanging gardens of babylon! A true must for anyone who considers themself a trig watcher!

Oh good it must have been my mistake. Today was much better, never in my life have I seen such high quality concrete and metal blended together to make one fine piece of art-forget mount rushmore, forget the mileau bridge, this is exquisite engineering at it's finest! I am considering asking the very kind and considering owner of the trig to either let me purchaseit or maybe start some kind of club for us exclusive members of society who've got nothing better to do with our time.

I'm retrologging this one, over a year since I visited it. It was my second attempt and walking about the pavement a gent comes out and asks if I'm looking for the trig, to which I replied yes; he could tell from the way I was walking around. He invited me to see the trig in his delightful back garden. It was covered up, to protect it, and it was behind his garden bench. It was his birthday and he couldn't have been more pleasant and helpful despite the rather sad circumstances, which I'll not go into.
Wonderful...

My o my what a fantastic trig point! As a I live a rather solitary life I was thrilled to find such a spectacular specimin of intrest in such a local area of my community, such excitement is usually found in exotic places such as Niagra falls and MT Everest but these are nothing in comparison to such a specatacular triumph of man and nature.
A second visit is a must

The owners of the house were in when we visited, working in the front garden. As soon as they saw us with the map they invited us into the back garden to look at the trig and even moved the tarpaulin covered garden bench so that we could get a better photo! Plug with indented letering.

As Morseman says, this one is in the back garden of a private house, part of a new-ish housing estate built on the site probably only in the last 20 years. My first visit revealed nothing, but a second trip (after Iainmac) proved he was right and the pillar is still in existance!

Got close to where my 1:50k map indicated the pillar should be and asked a man if he knew where a trig pillar was. He said: "Yes, it's my back garden - come and look". Under trees and a bit overgrown, but there it was!

S4243: Bob and Laura rather bemused at being invited to explore a stranger\'s garden!+

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